Server types

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Disclaimer: This article is not an official document. It attempts to accurately describe current policy and statements made by the developers, but should not be taken as binding or otherwise limiting. If an authoritative statement is required, it should be requested directly from from staff or the development team.

Introduction

Wurm currently has the following types of servers that players can access:

• Tutorial (Also known as Golden Valley)
• Freedom cluster PvE (Independence, Deliverance, Exodus, Celebration, Pristine, Release and Xanadu)
• Freedom cluster PvP (Chaos, which used to be called Wild)
• Epic PvP (Elevation, Desertion, Affliction, and Serenity)
• Challenge PvP (also know as Storm)

Other servers

There is a test server which allows testing of new game content.

Valrei, a moon of Wurm, has a special server on which battles between the gods take place. We mere-mortals can not visit the moon with our avatars, but we can follow these events remotely via a twitter feed and maps. Avatars on the Epic servers can assist their god by completing missions, and can potentially be rewarded for their efforts. See Scenarios for more information.

Finally there is a logon server which is part of the Wurm infrastructure used to manage accounts. If this server is down, no accounts can logon to any of the other servers.

Server travel map

You can sail across some server borders, depending on which cluster it belongs to. This will leave your skills and items intact. Animals cannot cross server borders. NOTE: If you are traveling across server borders, make sure all passengers are logged into the ship prior to crossing the border. Players logged off when a ship crosses the border may be left at their last log-in position on the previous server.

Within the Freedom cluster you can determine which server you will be travelling to when crossing the server border. To select your destination choose "Plot course" from the boat's context menu. You will see a window like this:

You can use an Epic portal to travel between a Freedom cluster and the Epic cluster. Please read here what happens to your skills and items!

Server type summary

The following table summaries the features of the player servers.

Cluster	Freedom								Epic				Challenge
Server name	Independence	Deliverance	Exodus	Celebration	Pristine	Release	Xanadu	Chaos	Elevation	Desertion	Affliction	Serenity	Storm
Server size in tiles	4096x4096	2048x2048	2048 x2048	2048x2048	2048x2048	2048x2048	8192x8192	4096x4096	4096x4096	2048 x2048	2048 x2048	2048 x2048	2048 x2048
Starter town	The Howl	Greendog	Esert	Tap Dance	Blossom	Sloping Sands	Glasshollow Vrock Landing Summerholt Greymead Whitefay Linton Lormere Newspring Esteron	Hunters Lodge The Landing Gold Coast The Shroud	High Hopes (JK) Flamma (MR) Gloomshade (BL)	Glittershore	Blackbone	Strongbox	Leymart (MR Far Base) Fire fangs(MR Forward Base) Two Shores(JK Far Base) Dim Lake(JK Forward Base) Hacksorrow(HOTS Far Base) Mad Door(HOTS Forward Base)
Kingdoms	Freedom							Freedom, Horde of the Summoned, and Player Made Kingdoms	JK,MR, HOTS, and Player Made Kingdoms	MR [1]	HOTS [1]	JK [1]	JK,MR, HOTS, and Player Made Kingdoms
PvP	Limited. Dueling and Sparring with other players if both parties consent.							Yes [2]	Yes	Yes. Enemy kingdoms receive a combat rating penalty.			Yes
Theft	No							Yes
Guard towers	Optional								Needed to claim kingdom land.	Optional
Deeds	Yes. Can be planted anywhere as server is all one kingdom.							Yes. Can only be planted in land claimed by kingdom.		Yes. Can be planted anywhere as server is all one kingdom.			Yes. Can only be planted in land claimed by kingdom.
Artifacts	No							Yes		No			Yes
Priests	White Light gods only. Vynora, Fo, and Magranon							All gods. Vynora, Fo, Magranon, and Libila
Champions	No							Yes		No			Yes
Account Types	Premium and Basic												Free Premium[4]
GM activity	High							Minimal					Limited[5]
Scenarios	No								Yes				No
The Curve	No								Yes				Yes
Double skillgain	No								Yes				20x faster than Epic
Spy protection	No							Yes					No
50ql ore cap	No									Yes. All ores except iron.[3]			No

^[1] Enemy kingdoms can still be on this server, but they cannot create towers or deeds.

^[2] Possible to attack other players, but you will become an outlaw. In PvP zones however you can attack all players.

^[3] Only applies to natural veins. A Rod of Transmutation will create a 99QL vein. (From Rolf : This is expected)

^[4] The first round of the Storm server was free-to-play so everyone had premium accounts.

^[5] Also please note that the nature of this server means that GM presence is very limited, so please keep our no reimbursement policy in mind if you lose your stuff for whatever reason.

Server type details

Tutorial server

The Tutorial server (Golden Valley) is where all new accounts are created. The aim of the tutorial is to introduce the player to the game mechanics. Players may then move on from the tutorial area to any of the player servers using portals. (Premium must be purchased to be able to move to the Elevation server.)

Premium time has no effect till the player leaves the server, as the Tutorial server only allows basic accounts. Thus skills are limited to a maximum of 20 and resource quality is also limited to 20. There are no gods or altars present on the Tutorial server.

The tutorial was built on the Golden Valley server. New players are spawned in the tutorial area and cannot leave other than through the portals to the Epic and Freedom servers. However accounts that were active before the tutorial was created are currently able to stay outside the tutorial area. These accounts are able to transfer to the other servers, but some have chosen to remain. PvP, theft, deeds, and guard towers are not allowed on the Tutorial server.

Freedom servers cluster 1

The entire area of each server is automatically claimed as Freedom kingdom territory, so guard towers are not required to plant deeds.

Griefing is frowned upon, and is a potentially bannable offense. GMs will police these servers as needed, but ideally the game rules should take care of things automatically. Moderators police the kingdom chat channels to ensure the chat rules are followed.

The original Freedom server was Independence. The second one was Deliverance, which is situated to the south of Independence. This was followed by Exodus, to the south of Deliverance.

The old Wild server became the fourth server to join Freedom. It is now known as the Chaos server and can be accessed by sailing across the west border of any of the three servers above. However, sailing back east across the border from Chaos will only take you to Deliverance.

Later, Celebration release note was added to the south of Exodus. At this time, it is not directly connected to Chaos.

All of the freedom clusters were connected when Xanadu was opened to the east of this cluster.

Freedom servers cluster 2

Follows Freedom servers rule set (see above). This is a new cluster starting with Pristine at the official release of Wurm Online 1.0 which wasn't connected to freedom cluster 1 for one and a half years in order to provide that total newbie feeling. The second server in this cluster was Release, which is situated to the South border of Pristine. Sailing west from either of these servers leads you to Xanadu.

Freedom servers cluster 3

The new Freedom server of Xanadu was isolated from the other servers for a few weeks. After that, it was connected to freedom cluster 1 to the west and freedom cluster 2 to the east. Sailing west from Xanadu leads you to Deliverance and sailing east from Xanadu leads you to Release.

Chaos server

The Chaos server is a PvP enabled Freedom cluster server. It can be access by sailing west from Independence, Deliverance, or Exodus. Upon arriving here you are automatically in the Freedom Isles kingdom and can join other Player Made Kingdoms. Sailing back East to Deliverance will put you back in the Freedom Isles kingdom, while returning to Chaos will put you back to whatever kingdom you were in when you left. Full PvP is enabled here between the Freedom Isles and Player Made Kingdoms. You can fully raid deeds, pick locks and bash things on deed.

GMs generally avoid intervening in PvP server affairs. However, excessive griefing and other violations of the game rules will be punished as appropriate.

Epic servers

Please refer to Epic Cluster for more information on these servers.

Challenge server

Please refer to Challenge for more information on this server.

Test server

The test server exists to test large game updates before they are added to the main servers.

Server list

Name	Land Name	Type	Twitter	Status	Battles[7]
Jenn001[6]	Login	Login	n/a	n/a	n/a
Jenn001[6]	Golden Valley	Tutorial	Golden Valley	GV	GV
Freedom001	Independence	Freedom	Freedom Server	Indi	Indi
Freedom002	Deliverance	Freedom	Freedom002	Deli	Deli
Freedom003	Exodus	Freedom	Freedom003	Exo	Exo
Freedom004	Celebration	Freedom	Freedom004	Cele	Cele
Freedom005	Pristine	Freedom	Pristineserv	Pris	Pris
Freedom006	Release	Freedom	Releaseserv	Rel	Rel
Freedom007	Xanadu	Freedom	Xanadu	Xan	Xan
Wild001	Chaos	Freedom	Chaos Server	Chaos	Chaos
Epic001	Elevation	Epic Wild	epicserv1	Ele	Ele
Epic002	Affliction	Epic HOTS home server	epicserv2	Aff	Aff
Epic003	Desertion	Epic Mol-Rehan home server	epicserv3	Des	Des
Epic004	Serenity	Epic Jenn-Kellon home server	epicserv4	Ser	Ser
Challenge001	Storm	Challenge	Storm	Sto	Sto
Valrei	Valrei	Home of the gods	Valrei	n/a	n/a

• ^[6] The Golden Valley entry server and the Login server are hosted on the same physical server.
• ^[7] Ranks and Max Ranks (if applicable) can be found at the bottom of the lists.